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Piece of the 1905 Wright Flyer III Plane -- Incredibly Rare With Only a Handful Owned Privately

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Piece of the 1905 Wright Flyer III Plane -- Incredibly Rare With Only a Handful Owned Privately

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Auction Date:2013 Jul 23 @ 17:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
Steel piece from the 1905 Wright Flyer, the first reliably functional airplane, and the third and most famous incarnation of the Wright Flyer. The plane had been disassembled after the Wright brothers tested it to protect the design from theft. Later it was reassembled but crashed in a field. In 1947 it was repaired and assembled again by Louis P. Christman, and is now housed in a museum at Carillon Historical Park and deemed a National Historic Landmark (the only airplane named such). Only one known component of the plane is known to exist in private hands aside from the cache from Christman's personal collection of which this piece was a part. Spar fitting measures 1'' x 3.25''. With provenance from Cowan's.
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